Tuesday, December 18, 2012

Let's Make a New Holiday - Santamas!

I have a GREAT idea! Let's advocate for a new holiday and let's call it Santamas! We can make it be about a chubby guy in a red suit that has reindeer to help him fly all around the world, delivering presents. He can only deliver presents to children who earn them through their good behavior.

It will be FUN! We can say that he slides down our chimneys. Maybe we can make up that he has elves to help him make toys for children! He can live far, far away... how about the North Pole? He can be all about candy canes and we can focus on getting lots and lots of presents from him!

This new holiday can be appropriate for everyone as it will be quite secular. We'll be able sing about Santa in our schools! It will be so cool! We can make it clear that it is just for fun; that the story is just a story, loosely based on nice man who lived and died long ago.

THEN...

Let's celebrate another holiday, called Christmas! We can focus it on Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God! We can read about his birth from the Bible, including reading that his birth was prophesied centuries before it occurred. We can imagine how it was for his mother, Mary, when she found out she was going to be mother to God's Son, and that her son would be The Savior. We can talk about multitudes of angels declaring his birth! It will be so exciting! Imagine the glorious songs we can sing in our churches, homes and even out caroling to shut-ins. Doesn't it just give you goose-bumps?